From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17489 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Apr 2003 02:49:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8800 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 02:49:35 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 19:49:33 -0700 From: Abhishek Amit To: Seemant Kulleen Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030414024933.GA8504@datalap.aamit.com> Mail-Followup-To: Seemant Kulleen , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030410143645.06a7b920.seemant@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030410143645.06a7b920.seemant@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags and your annoyances X-Archives-Salt: dcbf4dc1-0bbf-4581-b883-442e8aa8c3d7 X-Archives-Hash: 6e2c63c94b92db6364235d757131cc8d On 14:36 Thu 10 Apr , Seemant Kulleen wrote: > Hi All, > > I was just reading through a thread on USE flags spawned by the "dvd" flag used in mplayer. First off, it doesn't seem like the documentation has been read. That said, let me summarise: > > emerge -qvp mplayer will show you all the USE flags which apply to it. Those that have a "+" sign in front are flags you enabled, or have been enabled in the default profile. The "-" sign should be obvious, given the above info. > > The fact that you go through the ./configure options yourself is a good thing, as maybe you'll catch stuff the developers didn't and will report additional or obsolete options. However, to completely disregard USE, which imho, is a mechanism that makes Gentoo so great, defeats the purpose of having a meta-distribution which allows fine grained tweaking. > > As for which packages make use of which USE flags and for what purposes: I am redoing the USE howto, and hope to have that sort of thing extensively documented. If anyone has productive ideas about how to improve it, please let us know. No offense, but bitching about things and making empty complaints is just trollbait. > > > > -- > Seemant Kulleen > Developer and Project Co-ordinator, > Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant > > Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3458780E > Key fingerprint = 23A9 7CB5 9BBB 4F8D 549B 6593 EDA2 65D8 3458 780E One question I have about USE flags is what the policy is on binary software with some optional functionality achived through additional binaries. Should a USE flag be used to toggle the installaiton of these binaries or should they just be installed? I know, this is not the user side of the issue but thought this was an appropriate place to ask. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list